As the latest chapter of Israel's "brand Israel" project, whereby culture is used to whitewash an apartheid state founded on the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and occupation of their land, the Israeli government has teamed up with the Israel Lobby BICOM to sponsor a film festival in the UK (Seret 2013) which will showcase Israeli film and television at venues around London including Odeon Swiss Cottage Cinema. The festival is also sponsored by occupation profiteers like Golan Heights Winery and Bank Leumi.

We will be picketing outside Odeon Swiss Cottage on friday 14th June at 7:15pm before a Seret festival film screening asking the Cinema to stop its complicity in this whitewashing of apartheid and giving out leaflets to the public, talking to them about boycotting 'brand Israel'. Please join us!

Seret 2013 - the London Israeli Film and Television Festival
http://www.seret.org.uk/

Please note that there are also pickets of other locations of the Seret film festival, namely the Hackney Picturehouse, for more on these please see https://www.facebook.com/events/474089576013728/475321502557202

"The United States is 4.6% of the worlds people but still controls 50% of the worlds wealth and has a military that spends more than every other country in the world combined. I see this moment, as a moment that is very dangerous.. which is to say that the United States is a declining world economic power, similarly a declining political power, but what isn't declining is the military power. As you know from the 20th century that's a dangerous combination - a declining economic and political power but an overwhelmingly dominant military power. I think the national security state that we've seen organised since 9-11 in an unbelievably rapid way, which owes in no small part to Israel I must say, is a particular [example]."